ABC News is reporting that Senator Paul Wellstone (D-Minnesota) and seven others, including the Senator’s wife and daughther, have died in a plane crash near Eveleth, Minnesota.
The ABC report was confirmed by the Minnesota Department of Transportation and the Wellstone campaign.
Wellstone, running for a third term in the U.S. Senate, was on his way to Eveleth to attend the funeral of the father of Tom Rukavena, a long-time DFL member of the Minnesota House of Representatives.
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